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Access control
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Mayan EDMS uses a role based permission system
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control) that provides a
mechanism to control access to the contained documents and system functions.

The role access control system is divided into two main groups:

- :doc:`../chapters/permissions`: Permission grants to roles for the entire system.
- :doc:`../chapters/acls`: ACLs (access control lists). These are permission granted to a role for a
  specific object or group of objects.

.. toctree::
    :hidden:

    ../chapters/permissions
    ../chapters/acls